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MANILA CIGARS WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1883.

the writer of the letter would have been.

THE American press is profuse in the praise of Lord Coleridge for the good taste he displayed the numerous speeches he was called upon to make at the various points where he was enter ained. In no instance were they in set phrase, as from one who wishes to be fulsome in his laudations. He referred in a kindly spirit to someofthe shortcomings of Americans, but could always find more to admire than condemn. of ten he was epigrammatic, and never prolix. Said

THE Atlanta Constitution says: "Escaped Con necticut murderers are about to form a club for social amusements.”

JARLEY'S, recollect. There is no tarpaulin or the writer, was in the, reasonable and

SAYS the San Francisco Morning Call of the and sawdust, at JARLEY'S, remember. honest exercise of his vocation as a public

23rd October:-"Lieutenant E. H. Taunt, U. S. Every expectation held out in the hand-writer, even though he was not fully war

N., arrived from the East last evening in charge of seventeen naval apprentices. He stepped THE Sydney Butterfragte where there is about a Chinaman that can fascinate a white girl? bills is realised to the utmost, and the ranted in drawing the inferences he did

over at Mare laland, where he left the appren- as to the conduct of the plaintiff, and

tices, and he is expected to arrive in this city The answer is that it is the fact of John's liber- whole forms an effect of imposing bril-

this evening. It is stated that the boys are toality in the matter of dress and gewgaws which Ilancy hitherto unrivalled in this king-although it may be that he was not en-

be put on the U. S. ship Alert, which will sail makes him go down.". Again, John may occa for China early in November. Naval appren. dom." There is material evidence that tirely justified by the absolute truth."

This modern dictum would, according to well content to have continued as he be- the ideas of forty years ago,, "place all

tices are boys from fourteen years to eighteen sionally murder his wife, but he never beats her., gan, and that his ideal was a letter written alike under the tyranny of the Press-hé in New York, in the midst of the capitalists: years of age, who are enlisted to serve in the THE Sydney, Bulletin' states that during the altogether in a dead language and circu- ruffianly and respectable alike." That is "It is not your-colossal fortunes that interested navy until they become of age. Having at trial, at Adelaide, of Mah Poo, charged with lated only among a privileged caste. He to say, we are all of such a character that me. I can see great estates and sufficiently tained their majority, they are allowed either sending a compatriot to the Celestial City before owing to over-pressure on his brain," and com- is scornful about "nobadies," and as it it is possible for the Press to make good enormous, fortunes at home. I should be dis- to leave the service, or to continue on at an ad- his time, one of the jurors suddenly went mad,

posed to give a wide berth, to these things, be-vanced salary."

ments: "Serve him right. No man with a brain happens, that almost everybody is a "no-charges that we are scoundrels in the cause millions of dollars confuse my mind and

has any business in a jury-box." body," the author's contempt for the main, dangerous to society, and only not are irrelevant to my tastes. But what I do re- community at large is displayed from the scoundrels in one or two minor particulars joice to see, what has filled me with delight,

An inquest was held this afternoon at the Civil outset, It is but fair, however, to admit alleged amidst proven details. And hav-what I have longed to see but never will see in

Hallett, late chief officer of the steamship Ningbo, who is said, to have committed suicide by. laud- A ERAT. E D WATERS that the News "distinguished and 'emi-ing arrived, by induction; at this pleasing England, is the condition of your upper and

Hospital on the body of Mr. Edward Hughes

anum poisoning. The circumstances are briefly "nent" correspondent is free from the vice stage of his progress, the eminent" per lower middle classes, and the homes of your

peoples." of hypocrisy. He nowhere in his letter son points out that all writers are not-any

officer of the Ningpoon the 4th fast, and on the pretends to care a snap of the fingers for more than his ideal citizen-persons of WE read that the Russian court appointed to

these: The deceased was engaged as chief

that he is superior to common employ- among them "Bohemians of the most pro has decided on reducing the terms of expatriation ment, and holds a brief only in the in-nounced type, social pariahs, entertaining of 51. Siberian exiles. Considering the time the court has been sitting, and the uninterrupted terests of other eminent and distinguish a bitter hostility to the society from which stream of malcontents that has for, years been they ard outcasts," The tyranny of ed" personages,

flowing towards the Urals, the result of the com- an institution which lends its own facilities mission's labour has been a veritable mouse. for the declaration of charges, such as Chained in couples, the women by the wrist, the CARDINAL Manning has stolen a march on the was found empty on his desk. The deceased had these, against itself, cannot surely be of a men by the ankle and wrist, these miserables, very terrible sort. And especially as these surrounded by bayonets, pass out of sight on their weary march castwards. The pic charges are as true to-day as they were

AND MANUFACTURERS

OF

SAYS an American contemporary:-"A great deal has been written of late in derision of our navy, while at the same time fault has been

It ought to be stated in found with extravagance in the direction of

this connection that since the war the United making it better.

$3,000,000. During the same time England has States has expended for new war vessels but

THE SHANGHAI PHARMACY, the public. He is at no pains to disguise unchallengeable respectability. There are enquire into the condition of political prisoners invested $156,000,000 In new iron-clads, }`24th was discharged by Capt. Cass, at Canton, in

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

24, NANKIN ROAD, SHANGHAI,

BOTICA

INGLESA,

14, ESCOLTA, MANILA.

It is a characteristic trait that the author takes his stand, from the very outset, 13forty years ago." His whole argument is based on a forty-year-old dictum. He says in effect, as it was forty years ago,

THE CANTON DISPENSARY, CANTON.

THE DISPENSARY, FOOCHOW.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

France 888,000,000, Russia $35,000,000, Italy $32,000,000, Gemany $37,000,000, Turkey $17,000,000, Brazil $10,000,000, and insigni- ficant Chill $7,000,000. It is little wonder wo have no navy."

Middlesex magistrates, and has purchased from them the site of Tothill Fields prison for the magnificent sum of $580,000. The sale was

consequence of unsatisfactory conduct and in- sobriety. He was given a passage to Hongkong, by the Captain, and while en route to this port is supposed to have, drunk the entire con tents of an eight ounce vial of laudanum, which

been called by the and officer, who, not getting a- when the comatose condition of Mr. Hallett wAS. plys de Captain's attention to the fact, discovered through the window of his cabin being

ting to Subscriptions; Advertisements, &c., be ad-progression. Amen." He skips thirty-Press has had much to answer for, Had struck in honour of the late coronation. And when the contract was signed and deposit paid The unfortunate man was taken to the hopital dressed to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraph" 1 nine years of advancement and change, it been well advised-by an eminent yet, when the autocrat under whose eyes these | that the vendors discovered who the purchaser at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and died an' It is requested that all communications rela is now, and ever shall be, world without "forty years ago," and even earlier. The. ture makes a fitting obverse to the medals effected by private contract, and it was only broken open and the door opened from the inside.

and not to the Editor.

staff.

Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to "The jumps all records during that period, shuts Editor" and not to individual members of the his eyes to such horrid modern views as the present Lord Chief Justice of England Communications intended for publication must be accompanied by the name and address of the is responsible for, and anchors on his venerable precedent. It is really a pity writers, not necessarily for publication; but as evidence of good faith. graph will always be open for the tair discussion by correspondents of all questions affecting public interests, it must be distinctly understood that the Editor does not in any way hold himself res- ponsible for opinions thus expressed.

really was. There was a row at once, the more hour after admission. The inquest was adjourned bigoted denouncing the sale of so extensive a

lo to-morrow at 3.30 pm.

site to the Catholics. A resolution was moved was beyond the legal power of the magis-lunatic asylum by making and publishing the declaring the sale vold on the ground that it A SCIENTIST has fecently qualified himself for a trates to sell unless at a general meeting following useless calculations on the Apoca-

17 to 14, and the legality of the contract con- firmed.

Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Tele-that the pleader, with his mind fossilized would have been hanged had he been in these matters we would recommend a study specially convoked. The resolution was rejected, lyptic text:-"And he measured the city, with

TO ADVERTISERS.

Advertisers are requested to forward all notices than THREE O'CLOCK so, as not to retard. the

intended for insertion in that day's issue not later,

early publication of the paper.

TO SUBSCRIBERS. Arrangements have been made to publish The Hongkong Telegraph daily at 4 P.Bt. Sub scribers in the central districts who do not receive their fopies before Five O'CLOCK will oblige by at once communicating with the Manager.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1883.

The following admirable article, dealing with a question at present prominently be fore the Hongkong public, appeared under the heading "An Eminent Fossil" in a re- cent issue of the Sydney Bulletin :-

TELEGRAMS.

LONDON, November 27th. THE FRANCO-CHINESE DIFFICULTY.

It is currently reported that negotiations are

proceeding between the English and French Governments with a view to mediation in the French difficulty with Chine.

THE BRITISH SQUADRON IN CHINA.

Orders have been given to reinforce the British Squadron in China.

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November 28th.

FRANCE AND MADAGASCAR.

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your paper of Tuesday, and to a leader in a con temporary, commenting somewhat severely on the realisation of a public execution, with all its revolting" details, in the Dry Lane drama, A Sailor and His Lass. Unfortunately, I quite fail to see in what respect such realisation differs, artistically speaking, from the pictures given in true tragedy of executions by the axe or guillo- tine, as in dramas ilustrating the lives of Mary Stuart and Marie Antoiffette, or of burnings at the

abominations are happening, and whose word person, for example-itwould have sternly would eradicate the cancer which is eating into refused to give currency to the diatribes the vitals of Holy Russia, is blown into the air and other little matters which flowed from with dynamite, a shudder runs through the civi the pens of such social pariahs as WILLIAM lined world, and wise men set themselves to SHAKESPEARE-a poaching follow, who study the causes of such ferocity. To the curious

a reed, 12,000 furlongs, The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal," 12,009 forty years ago, did not go a little further strictly dealt with; OTWAY--a loafing fellow, of French history, from the accession of Louis

furlongs equal 7,920,000 feet, which, being back. But a few years earlier he would who choked guzzling a loaf; BURNS-a Seize to the decapitation of Charlotte Corday. have been enabled to discover a still drunken radical; Pox-scamp all round; Uroy the Chief Justice, Sir George Phillippo, sharper precedent, of actual local author- DRYDEN-a pot-house roysterer; Porz-a taking his seat on the bench this morning at the ACORRESPONDENT of the Washington Capital cubed, is 496,793,088,000,000,000,000 cubic ity, in favour of his views. In 1830, an cankered railer; GOLDSMITH-a person of Supreme Court, the Registrar, addressing his says: "A Wall street broker friend of mine feet. Reserving, half of this space for the lordship, said there was one small matter with says his firm are borrowing all the money they throne and court of Heaven, and half the Act passed by Governor DARLING and immoral habits; SHZZIDAR-a thriftless which his lordship had promised to deal before want at two per cent. a year, and charging cus-balance for streets, we have the remainder of tomers six per cent. for the use of it. We 124,198,272,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Divide cleared $15,000 on interest alone in the month this by 4096, the cubical feet in a room sixteen feet Council was still in force, by virtue of and unprincipled adventurer: Yet to some commencing the libel case, namely, a motion on which banishment was the punishment for people, who have imbibed the thought of behalf of Mr. D, E. Caldwell to be admitted a a-second offence as a libeller; and what | the last—althought empty-forty years, It solicitor of that honorable Court, and also of the of Auguit, said my friend-When our cusquare, and there will be 30,321,843,750,000,000 constituted libel was pretty much what the may occur that it was just in their writings Vice Admiralty Couss. The Attorney-Generalthen tomers order us to buy certain shares of stack rooms. We will now suppose the world always Crown Law officers chose to define. But, that these men lived the sweetness of their rose, and said he had to move the Court that Mr. for them they put up ten per cent of the total did and always will contain 990,000,000 inhabi perhaps, it was sufficient to go back forty Ilves, That a purer" morality distilled Caldwell be admitted a solicitor of the Supreme investment, and that makes us responsible for tants, and that a generation lasts for 33 years, years for principles applicable to thellberty through the poems and prose of GOLDSMITH Court, under Ordinance 3 of 1871. Mr. Cald-ninety per cent. If the stock is left idle on our making in all 7,970,000,000 every century, and on that ninety per cent. So, you see, if the 1000 centuries, making in all 2,970,000,000,000 of public speaking and writing. Some men than through the very life of many a 'so well had been recently examined by a Board of bands for any length of time we charge interest that the world will stand 100,000,000 years, or market is lively the profit lies in the commis inhabitants. Then suppose there were one hup to state, with the concurrence of his brother ex- take a pride a foolish one, of course-in called saint; that Pox never wrote a line examiners, and he (the Attorney-General) wished being regarded as ahead of their age. which he need have blushed to own; that aminers, that he passed an admirable exam- sions; If the market is dull it is in the interest. dred worlds, equal to this in number of inhabi

tants and duration of years, making a total of But when an eminent" authority dis- SHERIDAN's genius shone unobscured and ination, and one that, under any system, wouldn either case we come out ahead.”

2,970,000,000,000,000 persons, and there would plays his delight in being forty years be- sereno only in print. That--but we forget have admitted him to honors. They (the

reformed theatre," a model of for each person." hind his time. the folly of striving after these are, reasonings of to-day. Forty examiners) thought it only right that this A COMPANY is said to have been formed to be more than a hundred rooms 16 feet square which has recently been exhibited. Everything UNDER the heading “Revolting. Realism," Ro- The Chief Justice said he presumed the exam- progressive enlightenment will be appar years ago they were not in vogue, and it should be stated for Mr. Caldwell's benefit. carry out a ent. Let's have the ideas of forty years is our duty to bow to the wisdom of fortyiners had made the examination as required, possible about this theatre is of iron. All the best Buchanan writes from Drury Lane Theatre and being answered in the affirmative by the scenes, curtains, &c., are lifted and lowered by to the Daily News on the 18th ulto. My at ago to regulate our affairs, by all means, years ago.

Attorney-General, his Lordship said that Mr. hydraulic machinery, so that only about one-tention has just been called to the criticism in Forty years ago, London and Edinburgh

sixth the number of men usually required suffice Caldwell was admitted a solicitor as requested. were not connected by railway. Forty years

to "work" everything; and the scenes can be THE Timer says that the more closely a woman changed in a surprisingly short time. The stage For a full week, readers of the Evening ago, communication between America and

can get her bust to approximate to the shape floos is in a number of rectangular ecctions, each Nays were entertained by editorial an- Europe by steam vessels had not been

of a peg-top the prouder and happier she of which can be raised and lowered independent- nouncements of a remarkable letter treat-three years established, Forty years ago, ing of the subject so largely engaging the newspaper prese scarcely could be

usually is Why the peg-top has attained-to-ly by hydraulic power. This, it is paid, gives But a few years earlier, the

the high distinction of serving as a model power to produce many very remarkable and public attention-the law of libel. This said to exis

for woman is one of the many puzzles con picturesque effects which are impossible with nected with dress. The Greeks--who certain-ordinary stage machinery. Thus the stage promised lucubration was dangled before stamp-duty was 40 per copy, and it was

ly knew something about the human form may be made to slope backwards and downwards, the expectations of a tantalized community, not fill 1855 that stamp and paper duties

assigned to their ideal waist dimensions quite It was to be the deliverance of a mysterious, were alike totally repealed, amidst the

intolerable to an English woman of to-day. and judging by the manner in which the mournful predictions of the men then living,

Morever, they made it oval, whereas the modern editor of the News from time to time who preferred things as they were forty

waist is round. It is a physiological fact that grovelled in his own columns, and, figura-1 years ago, and cursed the prospect of

Negotiations are at a standstill between the there is about an oval waist a delightful supple- SPEAKING about the phenomenal pacer John tively, licked his promised contributor's "nobodies" being taught to form their

son, record 2.10, the NYSportsman says boots a very distinguished person, lodeed. own opinions instead of humbly echoing Government at Tamatave and the French; theness and elasticity, while the round waist so

common at the present day is hard, rigid and "What is most remarkable about the pacer After at least one aggravating delay, on the opinions of "eminent" persons wedded latter losisting upon their previous demands.

unsympathetic. The fact is, that some women Johnson is that he is not at all formed on the are blessed with waists naturally small, and oval model of the type he represents, thus administer though the distinguished writer had been to the ideas of "forty years ago."

Of course, an "eminent" person who

at every waist naturally is, while other women ing a severe back-hander to the conformation coy, or his humble admirer, the editor,

less favored by nature, are determined to guide theory. Taken point by point, he is, to all ap- desired to work up his readers into a writes exclusivaly "ad Senatores," and proper pitch of respectful eagerness, the publishes his exclusive letter in the vulgar- THE net profits of the royal lottery. In Cuba the smaliness at no matter what cost. But no pearances, a trotter of high finish. The tros, discriminating critic can even fail to perceive however, is a gait. he is not familiar with. As lucubration thus heralded by the pre-est newspaper available, cannot be ak during the last year were over $3,000,000

He simply produces THE steamship Taiwas goes into, and the Sues the difference between natural and artificial far as our knowledge of his pedigree goes, he was liminary genuflexions and copious abase-pected to reason, ments of the News, made its appear the precedent he has picked out from the leaves Kowloon Dock to-morrow, the Cleopatra smallness. Perhaps if this were better under got by Bashaw Golddust, son of Green's Bashaw, stood, women would cease to ruin, their health dam by Ned Forrest. What particular Ned ance. And a most imposing appear- rubbish heap of forty years ago, and flings feaver the Cosmopolitan Dock the same day, ance it made, Pompously dedicated, in it in the face of the crowd of "nobodies" We are informed by the Agent of the Messa- and weaken the muscles of their back by going Forrest we don't know. It is pretty certain there

out in a tight fitting curiass, even at the risk of is no pacing blood near him, and the fact of his punishment, and if in the drams already named Latin, to Legislators by the author, and known as the public." He concedes, geries Maritimes Co., that the incoming French appearing to depart conspicuously from woman's adopting the galt from choice, looks like a freak, I produce that horrible blet on our civilization mail steamer Yangis left Saigon for this port dress. They would then find that some other of nature. Hambletonian aires bred strongly as it is, I do so, both as artist and man, in the allotted the dignity of leaded lines and the indead-which is truly condescending on

problems, such as distribution of weight, would in the trotting lines, like the Old Horse, confidence that the representation can shock në top of a column by the awe-stricken editor, his part-thatthere has been since the date at i p.m. yesterday,

Dictator, Almont, Strathmore, Happy Medium, truly tender heart, or otherwise do anything but its appearance in type quite maintained when he petrified a "growth of general WE hear that Kennedy, the Civil Hospital settle themselves without much difficulty. the awful promise of the preliminary an intelligence," an "extension of personal | wardmaster who shot himself on Sunday night. nouncements. The writhingly respectful | liberty," a fuller recognition of the in a brothel, is somewhat better to-day, but not, 18 a woman a "person"? This question, says and others; they have some pacers to their credit, good Nowadays our judical murders are done the S. F. Morning Call, in Americit is answered and the majority of them out of trotting mares. In secret, and nowadays, the super-sensitive. differently according to different authorities. In Lady Close, Felix, Westmont, Colonel Dickey and nerves of certain playgoers are revolted by any announcements by the dazzled editor had necessity for freely and fearlessly exposing of course, out of danger. - already impressed the public with a proper corruption in high places." But it appears

Boston Mrs. Clara T. Leonard held a position Eddie C. are all dyed in-she-wool pacers, and yet reproduction of the stem and terrible facts of understanding that it was by an exertion to him that the Judges alone have tem-

as member of the Board of Health, Lunacy and they do not all partake of the generally accepted as suff of uncommon condescension that they pered the laws to fit with the times.

Charity. The statute provides that the board type of conformation. This, however, is a ques- must not be spoken of ot seen. Moreover, the were favoured at all with a perusal of the This is, we are happy to say, true, as ap-

shail consist of nine "persons." Governor Butler tion we leave to those learned in equine meta- miery asked the opinion of the Attomey-General who physics to solve if they can. Johnson placed agreeab opinions of so distinguished a person as piled to Judges in general. But as strict

JAMES WEST, an Irishman, an unemployed ther a woman was legally a person," and that his first work on the list at Detroit, Mich., June and buskin a the writer, and the impression of humble veracity was not exacted, even obligation thus created was confirmed "eminant" persona, forty years ago, it is seaman, was fined $5 or 14 days' hard labor, nt official declared that she was pot. This caused the 28th, getting a record of 2.22), beating a Beld of the Police Court this morning, for being drunk Governor to appoint a gentleman to fill Mrs, eight good ones in straight heats. At Eut when it appeared that the superior crea not surprising to discovor our author pro-

statute, by explicit definition, can place its own con 2.21, beating seven in straight heats. His nex ture who penned the letter had not deigned nouncing that Judges have never held and creating a disturbance in the "Welcome" Leonard's place, which was declared vacant, A Saginaw, July 4th,, he reduced

tavern last evening. The fine was paid, to address common people at all-had, in distinct Imputation of improper conduct to fact, declined to formally recognise their be justified by anything short of exact and THE money changer who put off a base dollar

exploit was at Chicago, July on another man on the 19th instant, and in

distanced Bully S. and Eddi

existence.

particular proof. Of course, this is true

absence of such definition, the vocabulary of the this race he cut seven second the drawers of whose stall some 3 counter

doing the same for Gurgle felt dollars and other counterfeit coins were English dictionary would certainly be the best and people begun to see found by Inspectors Mathieson and Quincey, authority that could be used, unless the com. had arisen. His attempt morning by Mr. Wodehouse, the base salsa bemon law is found to take precedence. If the Little Brown Jug thres day Ing ordered to be destroyed. Mr. Holmes de law of Massachusetts does not say in express only through a mistake as fended him. The other three men tharged with tens that a woman is not a person, then equalled the time of the bro

that state has disregarded the meaning attached tacked Johnson, and he laid up being mixed up in the business were discharged in giving his opinion, the Attorney-General of after, that bugbear of the train JOHN JAMES BROWN, a carpenter umemployed to the wond by the standard lexicographers, form, he started at Chicago- was fined $5 or 14 days hard labor by Captain Worcester and Webster. The former says: Father Time. After a warming Thomsett this morning, for being drunk, dis 3. Person A being possessed of personality: away evenly, reaching the quarter orderly, and tearing a blanket belonging to an intelligent being; a man, woman, or child" This was discourag Mr. Lidia Joanibro, at her house in Queen's And the latter."4 A living soul; a self-conscious horse, but when the half was i Read West, last evening. Defendant admitted being; a moral agent, especially a living human all was safe. fearing the blanket, bun said the complainant, being a man, woman or child, etc. Women 1.36. The mile was done in by whom he had a child, who is at the convents are holding elective and appointive offices in watches by reliable timers maki spent the money he gave her for the support of other states besides Massachusetts without any This boats Brown Jug's time one and thre the youngster, in Tare Fa lottery gambling. The thought of the question being raised whether quarter seconds, and, la, the fastest mile.

abe is a ff person" or not.

made in harness at either way of going fine was paid-

of

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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ROBERT HENRICKS, of Germany, a seaman of the United States man-of-war Pensacola, charged before Captain Themsett this morning with being a straggler from his ship, was ordered to be sent on board.

struction upon a word, as in declaring what shall constitute a "felony," what a "misdemeanor, or the grade of any other offence, but in the

To talk to common people, in common also, in a forty-years-ago sense, That Is language, was evidently too vulgar an to say, it is inapplicable to the case really undertaking for so lofty and important a at issue, where Imputations are true. In was sent up for six months, with hard labor, this s person to relish. So he addressed himself their essentials, but, in minor matters, to Legislators, in Latin. The entire sur incorrect-where, in short, the Ilboiled roundings of the letter are surprisingly is shown to have been a rogue in the suggestive of Mrs. Jazley's waxworks, It main, and in most particulars as stated is easy to conceive the important author but not in every minute detail exactly as addressing himself to the bowing editor of indicated. Such a glaringly modern dic the Nets, when tendering the contribution, tum as that of the present Lord Chief in the language of the immortal Mrs, Justice of England is, of course, eclipsed JARLEY," It's not a common offer, bear in in the light of other days. It is not," mind. It's JARLEY'S waxworks, rentember declared that merely modern authority, The duty's very light and genteel, the weakened by forty additional years of company particular select, the exhibition human progression, necessary that the takes place in assembly rooms. There justification should appear to you to be lat none of your open-air wagrancy at made out, if you think that the defendant,

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so that the audience may suddenly find them-stake, as in the well-known French play of Feanne, selves at the top of a mountain range, looking d Are, made famous by the acting of Rachel. down into a serica of deep valleys."

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